The trials and tribulations of Paul Jessop living in the lovely Somerset village of Barrington setting up Barrington Pottery.

Monday, 22 February 2010

Home Made Display Units.

I finished off these units yesterday.

The Idea was Taken from Doug Fitch's visit to the workshop last week.

I was talking through some Ideas and I had seen a picture of the one Doug had made for his showroom, made from old scaffolding planks.

I loved the look of Doug's one the style really suites his rustic earthy pots.

I decided to do a bit of digging around for the best local supplier and had a word with my friendly builders merchants. I told them of the price I was looking to pay and they did me a deal if I bought 10.

But for this price they wouldn't deliver, so as they are 3.9mtrs long I had to do at least one cut on each plank in their yard with a hand saw so that I could fit them in my truck.

This is the result.

I decided to keep the end bits on a make a feature of themand I've sanded this one down to see what it looks like.The top is two and a half planks wide.

Good use of scaffold boards. I'm too tight to spend money, so the shelves I made a couple of weeks ago were built from a recycled kitchen worktop which I split lengthwise. It's given me two heavy duty shelves above my workbench which is eight foot long.The doors and sides from the kitchen units were used as more shelving.All for free.Mark.

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30 years ago I was a full time potter full of the joys of spring and loving every minute of it. I want to feel that again so at the age of 46 i'm working on it. "I have a Plan". It's time I need to find now. I've just hit 54 this year and this is the Journey so far.